Pattern, distribution and trends of cancer among patients registered at Hadramout National oncology center(HNOC) during 2005-2015

Abstract

Background: Cancer is a major public health problem
in developing countries and worldwide. Cancer registry
in Yemen stills a big challenge in absence of national
cancer surveillance. In Yemen, there are three cancer
registries: Sanaa cancer registry, Aden cancer registry
and Hadramout cancer registry.
Objective: To describe the spectrum of the pattern,
distribution and trends of cancer among patients attend
at HNOC during 2005 – 2015.
Methodology: Retrospective study was carried on
data that had been collected through medical records
during the study period from 1st January 2005 to 31st
December 2015.
Results: Cancers were reported frequently in age group
of 41-60 years, and both males and females have nearly an equal representation with ratio of 1:1. The most
cancer patients registered were form Hadramout governorate, followed by patients from Shabwa and Al-Mahrah governorates. Regarding the trend of cancer registered in HNOC over period 2005-2015,we observed that
the cases decreasing from 4.8% in year 2005 to 4.7% in
year 2006 with slight increasing to 5.1% in year 2007
and increase in year 2008 to 8.1%. In year 2009, there
was mild decrease to 6.0% with repeated increasing in
2010 to 7.2%. The major increasing occurred in 2011
to 17.4%, then decreased to 13.4% in 2012 and still
decreased to 8.8% in 2015.
Conclusion: The most common affected age group
with cancer was middle age, and most patients were
from Hadramout governorate, with major increase in
number of cancer cases reported in 2011.